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California has no right to ban trans fats in restaurants or in retail baked goods (“Ahnold Wades Into Trans-Fat Fight,” July 26).

The government has no right to dictate to restaurants and other outlets what food they can or cannot sell, and it has no right to dictate to individuals what they can or cannot buy to eat.

Individuals should be free to judge for themselves what foods to eat, including if and when to eat foods with transfats.

Those who think that transfats are unhealthy are free not to eat food that contains them – and are free to try to persuade others not to sell or eat such food. They have no right, however, to impose their dietary preferences on those who disagree with them.